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Sharon White Rewires Disco
Episode 1530
At the center of 1970s New York's most iconic clubs—from the celebrity-studded Studio 54 to the premiere lesbian discotheque Sahara—stood a queer Bla…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Jim Cullen, "1980: America's Pivotal Year" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Episode 196
1980 was a turning point in American history. When the year began, it was still very much the 1970s, with Jimmy Carter in the White House, a sluggish…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Adrienne Domasin ed., "The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: The Last of Us" (Playstory Press, 2025)
Episode 1528
The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: The Last of Us (Playstory Press, 2025) explores the psychological themes at the heart of The Last of Us franchise. Au…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, "Videotape" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 1526
Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and entertainment, pried open the closed societies behind t…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Michael Brown, "Eyeliner’s Buy Now" (Bloomsbury 2025)
Episode 1527
Michael Brown undertakes a thorough study of Eyeliner's Eyeliner's Buy Now (Bloomsbury 2025) a vaporwave homage to the kitsch electronic sounds of t…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 111
"OK" as a word accepts proposals, describes the world as satisfactory (but not good), provides conversational momentum, or even agrees (or disagrees)…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)
Episode 115
Steven Spielberg's extraordinary career redefined Hollywood, but his achievement goes far beyond shattered box office records. Rejecting the view of …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Doug MacCash, "Mardi Gras Beads" (Louisiana UP, 2022)
Episode 19
The first in a new LSU Press series exploring facets of Louisiana’s iconic culture, Mardi Gras Beads (2022) delves into the history of this celebrate…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Pluribus Episode 3 Analysis: The Amazonification of Everything
Episode 44
It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we analyze the third episode of Vince Gilligan’s new series Pluribus. We talk through this episode as a literali…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Páraic Kerrigan, "LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 3
“We know what we want, and one day, our prince will come,” says Toby, the bicycle-shorts-wearing, double ententre-making, unacknowledgely-gay neighbo…
11 months, 3 weeks ago